Duplex razor-strop.



No. 645,954. Patented Mar. 27, |900. J. H. HEMMERDINGER.

DUPLEX RAZOR STBOP.

:Application filed Jan. 10, 1900.,

(N0 Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOIIN H. HEMMERDINGER, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

DU PLEX RAZOR-STROP.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 645,954, dated March2'?, 1900.

Application filed January 10,1900. Serial No. 924. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, JOHN H. HEMMERDIN- GER, a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of New York, (Brooklym) county of Kings, andState of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inDuplex Razor-Strops, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a duplex razorstrop which is so constructedthat both faces of either strop may be readily exposed for use. To thiseect I secure the strops to a pair of swinging eyes that permit thestrops to be reversed and with means for suspending said strops ineither of their positions.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a side view of my improvedduplex razorstrop; Fig. 2, a face view, partly broken away; Fig. 3, aside view of the hinge-frame, partlyin section; and Fig. 4, aperspective view of the frame. Y

The improved duplex razor-strop consists, essentially, of a pair ofstropsproper, A B, made, preferably, of leather and canvas and connectedat one end to a pair of hinged eyes or bails, which may be folded inopposite directions, so as to expose opposite faces of the strops.

a h are the elongated eyes or bails, to which the strops A B arerespectively attached in suitable manner and which turn in a common tubec. Within this tube c are received, furthermore, between the bails a. b,a pair of hinged bails or elongated eyes d c, that carry the means bywhich the strop is adapted to be suspended in either one of itspositions. These means consist more particularly of the eyes f g, whichmay be either permanently attached to the bails d e or may be maderemovable therefrom. In the latter case but one eye is employed, whichis attached to that particular bail from which the strop is to besuspended. When -the strop is reversed, the eye is first detached andsecured to the other bail, as will be readily understood.

In use the strop is suspended from, say, the eye f, and the bails a, hare swung away from it and in close contact with-the intermediate baile,so that the strops A B are placed in close proximity, Mwith one of theirsides exposed. Fig. l of the drawings shows the distance between thestrops on an exaggerated scale for the sake of greater clearness. If itis 4desired to use the opposite sides of the strops A B, they are swungaround, together with their bails a b, so that the latter lie close'against the bail d,while the strop is suspended from the eye g. (Shownin dotted lines, Fig. l.) Thus it will be seen that both sides of thestrops may be readily exposed and that one face of each strop is asaccessible as the other. By my invention I am enabled, therefore, toselect either side of the strop, and thus if one side is worn or cut theother may be chosen. So, also, if the two faces of the strops are difeferently prepared either one may be utilized, so that I obtain, ineffect, the use of four strops in lieu of two.

What I claim is 1. The combination in a duplex razor-strop, of a pair ofstrops, with a pair of pivoted bails, to which the strops arerespectively secured, and a second pair of bails for suspending thestrops in opposite positions, substantially as specified.

2. The combination, in a duplex razorstrop, of a tube, with a pair ofpivoted suspendingbails, received thereby, a second pair of pivotedbails received by the tube between the suspending-bails, and a pair ofstrops secured to said second pair of bails, substantially as specified.

Signed by me at New York city, New York, this 9th day of January, 1900.

JOHN H. HEMMERDINGER.

Witnesses:

JULIUs LEHMANN, WILLIAM SCHULZ.

